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Discourse and Democracy: Critical Analysis of the Language of Government (Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse) - Hardcover

Book 7 of 16: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse

Farrelly, Michael

 
9780415872355: Discourse and Democracy: Critical Analysis of the Language of Government (Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415872359 ISBN 13: 9780415872355
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

In this new study, Farrelly gives a critical examination of democracy as it is conceived and practiced in contemporary advanced liberal nations. The received wisdom on democracy is probelmatized through a close analysis of discourse in combination with critical theories of democracy and of the State. The central theme of the book is the paradox of pervasive reference to democracy as a legitimation of political action by liberal governments versus the converse weakening of actual democratic practice within the liberal world. Farrelly builds on the work of Fairclough and others to examine this paradox, developing a new critical concept of "democratism" as an ideology that undermines the possibility of a more genuine democracy through political actors who oversimplify the idea of democracy. The book includes critical analyses of key political texts taken from presidential and prime ministerial speeches from the US and UK that attach democracy to non-democratic practices.

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About the Author

Michael Farrelly is Lecturer in English Language at the University of Hull, UK.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415872359
ISBN 13 
9780415872355
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
138